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KevinRamirez
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Mar 21, 2025

New Win11 install - File Explorer Home keeps getting hung up - Long delay before Home page

I have two clean Win11 installs and the one I use for work keeps finding a drive or file on the Explorer Home page that (I'm guessing) is can't access.

There is a long delay while it says "Working on it..."

If I go to the File Explorer and clear the history all is well again, for a time.
It seems to just repopulate the favorites and recent files on the Home page with one drive files. But I'm using a local Windows account and not logged into OnDrive. I have installed Office 365 with a work account.

My work laptop shows what looks like the same favorites and recent files but has no delay.

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  • Change the “Show recent files in Quick Access” and “Show frequently used folders in Quick Access” settings to Off if you'd like to prevent those from populating in the first place.

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